synodal

From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis.^[1][2] By surface analysis, synod +‎ -al.

synodal (plural synodals)

1. A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
   • 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland:

     synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year

2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:

     Or els is thys Goddis law,
     Decrees or decretals,
     Or holy sinodals,
     Or els provincyals,
     Thus within the wals
     Of holy church to deale  […]?

synodal (not comparable)

1. synodic; relating to a synod
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: for Thomas Vnderhill, , →OCLC, page 17:

     Your juſtification is but a miſerable ſhifting off thoſe teſtimonies of the ancienteſt Fathers alledg’d againſt you, and the authority of ſome Synodal Canons, which are no warrant to us.

From synode +‎ -al, from Ecclesiastical Latin synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos).

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synodal (feminine synodale, masculine plural synodaux, feminine plural synodales)

1. (Christianity, relational) of a synod; synodic

• synode m
• synodique

• “synodal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from Late Latin synodālis, from synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”). Cognate with English synodal, Dutch synodaal, French synodal.

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synodal (strong nominative masculine singular synodaler, not comparable)

1. (relational) synod; synodic (notably in ecclesiastic context)

• Synode

• “synodal” in Duden online